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		<title>iSerenity Ambient Sounds Offer Soothing Background Noise</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/iserenity_ambient_sounds_offer_soothing_background_noise-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lifehacker US Edition</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you work quietly alone at home or in an office where the hum of fluorescent lights is the dominant soundtrack of your day, tune into one of the 31 ambient loops offered on the iSerenity web site. Listen to the clack of typewriters and maybe your own keyboard pace will pick up; if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email &#8216;Ding&#8217; Costs $70 Billion a Year</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/07/email_ding_costs_70_billion_a_year-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology is turning us all into a bunch of time-wasters according to The Observer, which reports that the beep of an email alert alone is costing the US economy $70 billion per year. Wonder what our Twitter habits are adding up to. [via]


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		<title>Twittervision shows tweets on world map</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/07/twittervision_shows_tweets_on_world_map/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/07/twittervision_shows_tweets_on_world_map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twittervision shows real-time posts from Twitter users around the world on a Google Maps interface, providing odd insights from all corners of the globe. You can get added to the site by following &#8216;twittervision&#8217; on Twitter itself, and use simple location codes to change where your tweet appears. We haven&#8217;t managed to think of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Dose Sends Binaural Beats to Your Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/07/i_dose_sends_binaural_beats_to_your_brain-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/07/i_dose_sends_binaural_beats_to_your_brain-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white noise]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Web site I Dose offers several downloadable, streaming binaural beats designed to alter your mood. With offerings like Intelligence Increase, Aspirin (recommended against headaches), and Chakras opening, I can&#8217;t vouch for the claimed restorative benefits of binaural beats, but at the very least they provide some solid white noise.  
i Dose



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		<title>Quickly Focus on Your Active Window with MinimOther</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/03/quickly_focus_on_your_active_window_with_minimother-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/03/quickly_focus_on_your_active_window_with_minimother-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downloads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[featured windows download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows only: Free, open source application MinimOther takes an aggressive approach to distraction by automatically minimising every window except the currently active window to give you a clutter-free workspace that allows you to focus on the task at hand. As soon as you activate one window, the last active window will minimize, so essentially MinimOther [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enhance Online Video Watching with Zorro</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/02/enhance_online_video_watching_with_zorro-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/02/enhance_online_video_watching_with_zorro-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[digital video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distraction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[utilities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Windows only: Freeware application Zorro aims to take distractions like flashy ads out of your online video watching experience. It does so by blacking out all content that isn&#8217;t your video, including your browser window, so it&#8217;s just you and your video. Zorro is brilliant in its simplicity: it&#8217;s basically a see-through application window, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Smart and Lazy Ways to Save Your Workday</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/02/top_10_smart_and_lazy_ways_to_save_your_workday-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/02/top_10_smart_and_lazy_ways_to_save_your_workday-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Trapani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[distraction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[procrastination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If you leave the office most nights feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and behind on everything you&#8217;ve got to get done at work&#8212;even though you just spent 10 hours there&#8212;you&#8217;re letting your workday get away from you.  It&#8217;s too easy to let the hours you spend at the office get stolen by meetings, email, interruptions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Links Please! Strips Web Page Hyperlinks</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/01/no_links_please_strips_web_page_hyperlinks-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/01/no_links_please_strips_web_page_hyperlinks-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Trapani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[distraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downloads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[featured greasemonkey user script]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greasemonkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[user scripts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Firefox with Greasmonkey:  If you get carried away surfing the web by clicking every tangential link in sight, drawing you down yet another road away from the stuff you&#8217;re supposed to be doing, check out the No Links Please! Greasemonkey script.  This simple user script strips web pages of links, ensuring that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn your distractions into motivators</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/01/turn_your_distractions_into_mo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/01/turn_your_distractions_into_mo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Stokely</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[au]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distraction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culling personal possessions and other &#8216;distractions&#8217; from your workplace could actually be a productivity killer, according to Charlie Pabst at Freelance Switch. He says he went freelance to get away from the &#8220;sterile cubicle&#8221; environment, and says keeping &#8216;distractions&#8217; like his guitar close to hand help him in his work.&#160; 
How does it work? He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two years ago, we covered ways to firewall &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/01/two_years_ago_we_covered_ways_/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/01/two_years_ago_we_covered_ways_/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamar Weinberg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[distraction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, we covered ways to firewall your attention in a distracting workplace.

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